Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:51:50 +0200 From: Claude Buisson <clbuisson@orange.fr> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stable+xorg+hw.vga.textmode=1+nvidia-driver-390 may require other ports be rebuilt to function again. Message-ID: <77ea93b9-0175-376c-2e00-75347758967f@orange.fr> In-Reply-To: <DM6PR03MB3674379B85E6EC4A970988E2E6469@DM6PR03MB3674.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> References: <DM6PR03MB3674CD172505B4A54CEB29B7E6479@DM6PR03MB3674.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <DM6PR03MB3674379B85E6EC4A970988E2E6469@DM6PR03MB3674.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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On 2022-09-14 09 h 29, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: > I mention this here as there was nothing I noticed in > /usr/ports/UPDATING or /usr/src/UPDATING to make me aware of what would > need rebuilding or to expect it. If I missed something that I should > have seen then I apologise for the noise. > > stable + xorg + hw.vga.textmode=1 + nvidia-driver-390 requires > rebuilding more than kernel, world, and a poudriere run across the > nvidia driver port. Not sure which port(s) changed it back to working > but didn't see anything in /usr/src/UPDATING, /usr/ports/UPDATING, or > here to make me expect this would have happened. > > Moving from 13.1-STABLE 1301503 (don't know how to see git hash and > not in poudriere logs) and ports tree 9d34c0bfee17 to 13.1-STABLE > 1301507 dc96fb072300 and ports tree 5d303ab48075 I found that after > rebuilding/reinstalling kernel+world that on reboot I could only start X > if I removed hw.vga.textmode=1 from loader.conf. That continued after > doing a rebuild and `pkg upgrade` of nvidia-driver-390 port under > poudriere with its jail based on same -STABLE code that I built and > installed from and on the same machine (122 ports rebuilt). After > rebuilding+reinstalling all ports I found it was back to working as > expected. > > When reinstalling/upgrading the final build of the ports, I had a > running X session which seemed to close (crash?) but not return to the > terminal that launched it; there was then no keyboard/mouse responses > available on the system but it was still running as I confirmed from an > ssh login on another machine. > > I still use hw.vga.textmode=1 as switching back to a terminal after > launching X only works by closing X; screen is otherwise black with > large colored blocks and no usable text on the terminal. I often have to > switch across a couple different terminals before I have a working one > too. As sometimes things break, I prefer to have an option to switch to > a terminal to fix things even if it is just killing a process or X. > Either mode still leads to plasmashell crashing when I try to switch > back to the GUI if I am using KDE; that is an old issue I've never had > interest to take the time to solve. > > Thank you for your time, > Edward Sanford Sutton, III > do not use vt, use sc ! CBu
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